There is also a fair amount of evidence to suggest that even when a link up was authorized Von Paulus failed to act. He was poor commander and the blood lies at his feet imho.
Hitlers field marshals disobeyed him all the time…no reason that Paulus shouldn’t have done the same. Do you honestly think had Manstein or Model had been in charge of the 6th it would have been lost?
My "links are called".....books.
You might want to familiarize yourself with them. They are quite useful for learning things at a much deeper level than Wikipedia.
